Reducing Diagnostic Error in the Intensive Care Unit. Engaging Uncertainty When Teaching Clinical Reasoning.

ABSTRACT: As medicine continues to advance with improvements in technology, factual information has become more easily available at the bedside. Nevertheless, diagnostic error remains a salient concern for the medical community and public. To address this problem, two fundamental characteristics of the physician remain important: curiosity and the ability to apply critical reasoning to solve problems, often in the setting of imperfect knowledge and uncertainty. Historically, the teaching and recall of factual information, illness scripts, and pattern recognition are emphasized early in medical education. Students are often left with the impression that there is a single correct answer for every question; discussions of uncertainty are rare. Consequently, discomfort with uncertainty is common among d

SUBMITTER: Dunlop M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8015765 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature